PLATT -CURATED news

GENERAL INTEREST
Why Has The West Been So Successful?
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-has-the-west-been-so-successful/

UPS Won’t Go
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/ups-wont-go.php

The New York Union That Says Ni
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

HEALTH
Candida Auris: The Fungus Nobody Wants to Talk About
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/health/candida-auris-hospitals.html?emc=edit_ne_20190408&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190408&te=1

Employees Quit NHS Transgender Clinic over Kids’ Experimental Treatments 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/employees-quit-nhs-transgender-clinic-over-kids-experimental-treatments/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-08&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Vitamins and Supplements Can't Replace a Balanced Diet, Study Says
https://news.yahoo.com/vitamins-supplements-apos-t-replace-210031571.html

Pollen Is Getting Worse, but You Can Make Things Better With These Tips From an Allergist 
https://www.ecowatch.com/pollen-allergy-tips-2633793066.html

What Is the Healthiest Type of Rice? 
https://www.ecowatch.com/healthiest-rice-2633703792.html

USDA’s FSIS Condemns The Washington Post for False Reporting on a Critical Public Health Issue 
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/newsroom/news-releases-statements-transcripts/news-release-archives-by-year/archive/2019/nr-040819-01

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/hamilton.php3



SPORTS
College Athlete's Gymnastics Career Ends in Brutal Fall  (Video requires a strong stomach.)
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newser-college_athletes_gymnastics_career_ends_in_brutal-rnewsernor/category/news+

BUSINESS
New NAFTA deal 'in trouble', bruised by elections, tariff rows
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nafta-deal-trouble-bruised-elections-tariff-rows-121133464.html

WEATHER
Lightning Strikes Water Tower
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/lightning-strikes-water-tower-0?pl=pl-the-latest

ICHTHYOLOGY
MASSIVE World Record Size Hammerhead Shark Caught Fishing with Greg Norman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSpE_2OF40&feature=youtu.be

TECHNOLOGY
Writer gets locked out of his iPad for 49 YEARS after his 3-year-old son tried to enter the wrong password too many times
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6898667/Writers-three-year-old-son-locks-iPad-26-million-seconds-trying-break-in.html

CYBER SECURITY
Die, robocalls, die: A how-to guide to stop spammers and exact revenge 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/robocall_revenge.php3

FOREIGN POLICY
The war no one wants 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=eb42b74376e3b0b4fbb91981464622d9_5cab65d7_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190408&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

NATIONAL SECURITY
US schools are waking up to the China threat 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0419/rogin040819.php3

DEFENSE
Retiring the USS Harry S. Truman Is a Terrible Idea 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/uss-harry-s-truman-aircraft-carrier-retirement-terrible-idea/

SOCIAL MEDIA
‘Morally bankrupt pathological liars’ at Facebook can’t be trusted, warns New Zealand’s privacy commissioner 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/morally-bankrupt-pathological-liars-at-facebook-cant-be-trusted-warns-new-zealands-privacy-commissioner-2019-04-08

IMMIGRATION
Obama's Confession About Assimilation May Land Him In Hot Water With Fellow Dems
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/04/07/watch-even-obama-believes-immigrants-need-to-assimilate-n2544403?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/08/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Judge halts Trump policy requiring asylum seekers stay in Mexico
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/437919-federal-judge-issues-injunction-over-policy-requiring-asylum-seekers?userid=288549

Bernie Sanders Is Strongly Against Open Borders. Here's What He Had to Say About It. 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/04/08/bernie-sanders-open-borders-n2544402?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SCOTUS
Conservatives' takeover of Supreme Court stalled by John Roberts-Brett Kavanaugh bromance 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/07/supreme-court-bromance-john-roberts-brett-kavanaugh-tie-up-court/3342377002/

RUSSIAGATE
Top Republican on House intel committee 'will send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr' over leaks by 'Watergate wannabes' during the Trump-Russia investigation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6897677/Top-Republican-House-intel-committee-send-eight-referrals-Attorney-General-William-Barr.html

POLITICS
Blacks may save the Democrats from the lunatic left
https://nypost.com/2019/04/07/blacks-may-save-the-democrats-from-the-lunatic-left/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

New poll finds Biden leading Dem pack despite accusations
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/437871-new-poll-biden-still-leads-democratic-presidential-pack-despite?userid=288549

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – 
which you can never afford to Lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-york-union-that-says-ni-11554661579?emailToken=d042b5a9e1b0a3cd86b53fff896945b5LENFY4AkgjpbU9h1k9E2vzdrQ1qzKfS9H6tgRsPyAeT9N4I7Rjgrqf7jAuSLk/TDvkZvMklItiQysAg/nLY+tA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The New York Union That Says Ni

If you want a refund of dues spent on politics, get ready to chop down a tree with a herring.

By

Robert J. Bellafiore

April 7, 2019 2:26 p.m. ET